Global Patent Index - EP 1438649 A1

EP 1438649 A1 20040721 - METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING KEYBOARD ACCELERATORS IN APPLICATIONS IMPLEMENTED VIA A BROWSER

Title (en)

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING KEYBOARD ACCELERATORS IN APPLICATIONS IMPLEMENTED VIA A BROWSER

Title (de)

VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNGEN ZUR ERMÖGLICHUNG VON TASTATURBESCHLEUNIGERN IN ÜBER EINEN BROWSER IMPLEMENTIERTEN ANWENDUNGEN

Title (fr)

PROCEDE ET APPAREIL POUR ACTIONNER DES ACCELERATEURS DE CLAVIER DANS DES APPLICATIONS MISES EN OEUVRE PAR UN NAVIGATEUR

Publication

EP 1438649 A1 20040721 (EN)

Application

EP 02778392 A 20020927

Priority

  • US 0230888 W 20020927
  • US 96746701 A 20010928

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO03029947A1] Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for enabling keyboard accelerators (301) in software applications implemented via a browser application are disclosed herein. Keyboard accelerators are enabled by intercepting keyboard data (303) before it can be utilized by the browser application for its own purposes, such as initiation of a keyboard accelerator native to the browser application. The intercepted keyboard data is evaluated (305) to determine whether it corresponds to a defined remote application keyboard accelerator, and if so, then a remote application function module (309) is called to implement the feature mapped to the particular identified keyboard accelerator. The keyboard data may then be removed from an event queue or otherwise deleted such that the browser application continues to be executed without reference thereto.

IPC 1-7

G06F 9/44

IPC 8 full level

G06F 3/02 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G06F 9/45512 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 03029947 A1 20030410; EP 1438649 A1 20040721; EP 1438649 A4 20050831; JP 2005505047 A 20050217; US 6724399 B1 20040420

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 0230888 W 20020927; EP 02778392 A 20020927; JP 2003533093 A 20020927; US 96746701 A 20010928